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Abbey Park High School students Nart Barileva and Aagnik Pant won silver medals for their project: Solvent-Based Cellulose Crystallinity Minimization to Improve Biofuel Production.

Emily Carr Public School Grade 8 student Jack Mogus also won a silver medal for his project Jocks, Girdles and Guards — A Dilatant Anomaly. Each silver medal comes with a $300 cash award and a scholarship of $2,000-$2,500.

Oakville Christian School Grade 8 student Eduard Brenninkmeijer took home a bronze medal, a $100 cash award and a $1,000 scholarship for his project Flood Water Purification at Home.

She has been invited to participate in the Australian National Youth Science Forum in January 2015, a trip valued at $2,500.

Meanwhile at the international level, St. Thomas Aquinas Secondary School Grade 11 student Calvin Rieder placed second in the Environmental Management category for his project Passive Manipulation of Thermal Radiation — Dual Purpose Condensers to Provide Potable Water.

That distinction earned him a $1,500 cash award and an asteroid named after him.

The students qualified for the international and national competition after being among 70 elementary and high school students who hauled a number of awards home from the Bay Area Science and Engineering Fair in Hamilton in April.